Windows Phone 7 Announced and Looking Great!

Watching Windows Phone 7 Series announcement this morning? You should be.

Congrats WinMo team!

UPDATE: Press conference is now over, with a good chunk of the OS and UI shown off. I’ll share some thoughts based on what I’ve seen here and in the past later on today.

There’s a great hands-on video over at Channel9 by Joe Belfiore. He also talks about the design shift that accompanied this release of Windows Phone. His personality and mentality really bleed off into his team; I had the pleasure of working with one of his direct reports for a short while at Microsoft. They’re all super enthusiastic about providing an emotional design that really pleases the user.